A KIND OF KINDNESS
Personal and professional leanings
Can help decide the sufferer’s fate
Never the skewed politician’s voice
Playing no part in another’s choice
Should the time be now or just wait
As kindness has different meanings
What is all this about pressure to die
Or even guilt about being dependent
Timely death can mean now or later
But who then should be adjudicator
Not just some overworkled attendant
Nor if a situation when no rules apply
Maybe it’s too early for a termination
As there will be much to think upon
There’s sympathy in the mix somehow
And a bit more time, one might allow
It will be too late when they are gone
And it risks causing much perturbation
Dilemmas of untreatable constant pain
For individuals and caring relatives too
Is the costly Zurich trip really required
When a local solution is to be admired
But in the end, if it should ever be you
I would sooner be with you once again